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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES EXPERIENCE

IMMERSIVE | CREATIVE PRODUCTION | MEDA + CONTENT

SYNOPSIS

The THEA-award winning, media-based Indigenous cultural centre explores the Treaty 6 area through Indigenous and Metis perspectives - past, present, and future. With Hidden Story Productions, our team was responsible for writing, directing and producing the media + content for the large-scale immersive environment spanning 30,000 square feet across 4 multi-sensory galleries: over 15+ triggerable media-based stories across >70 projectors and surfaces, and 2000+ interpretive panels and cultural objects, all of which we developed hand-in-hand with hundreds of Indigenous collaborators across the province.

We spent over a year on the road making relationships and gathering 60+ oral interviews with Elders and knowledge-keepers which went into developing the verbatim text panels and media stories. Indigenous Art Directors, writers, musicians, artists and Elders guided the sounds, stories, and aesthetics of this truly triumphant immersive cultural centre.

YEAR OF COMPLETION

2021

CLIENT

Hidden Story Productions - for Fort Edmonton Park

ROLE

Creative Producer, Media + Content - Rio Mitchell
Cinematography team- Danny Cox
Animation Producer + Project Manager - Roxann Vaudry-Read

DELIVERABLES

150+ media outputs across a 50-minute show, and 2000+ interpretive panels + story graphics

COLLABORATORS

Hidden Story Productions (Executive Producer Chris Hsiung), director Barry Bilinsky, producer Laura O’Grady, John King Creative, NASSAL, Kubik-Maltbie, EDFilms, 100+ Indigenous Elders, writiers, artists and collaborators across Alberta

AWARDS

THEA Award Winner 2022 - Oustanding Achievement - Heritage Center
ULI Americas Awards for Excellence Winner 2022
Prix Numix 2022 Winner - In situ Museum exhibition
+ dozens of craft awards

Visit the cultural centre today at Fort Edmonton Park

Dolly in of the Indigenous Knowledges Corridor at the Indigenous Peoples Experience at Fort Edmonton Park
Projection on a tipi, of an elder telling a group of children a story, with a starry sky projected on the panels behind it, at the Indigenous Peoples Experience of Fort Edmonton Park
Faces of Indigenous performers on the screens displayed in the Gathering Place at the Indigenous Peoples Experience of Fort Edmonton Park
Chris Hsiung, Rio Mitchell, and Danny Cox all dressed up as they hold the THEA Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Heritage Center
People standing and watching an animated version of the Cree creation story, told through projection in the Indigenous Knowledges Corrirdor at Fort Edmonton Park
The exterior view of the projection on the roof of the Metis cabin, inside the Indiegnous Peoples Experience of Fort Edmonton Park
An aniamted train projected on 2 walls and the roof of the Metis Cabin of the Indigenous Peoples Experience at Fort Edmonton Park
Four people watching a story unravel on the roof of the Metis Cabin in the Indigenous Peoples Experience at Fort Edmonton Park